Kanji1 / 4
中 kanji
in, inside, middle, mean, center
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
チュウ
Kun readings
なかうちあたる
Words with 中
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —渡中going to China
- —中坊middle-school student
- —中肋midrib; rachis
- —中諦truth of the middle (all things are in a middle state, being void yet having temporary existence)
- —中夏midsummer; China; capital (city)
- —中銀central bank
- —中置infix
- —生中medium-size draft beer
- —夏中period during which monks may go into a summer retreat
- —夏中whole summer; summer long
- —尿中in the urine
- —血中in the blood
- —藩中within a (feudal) domain
- —夜中all night; the whole night
- —中夜midnight period; midnight service; winter solstice
- —中門gate in the middle of the corridor connecting an annex to a pond-side building (in traditional palatial-style architecture); central gate (between the main gate and main hall of a temple); central gate (separating the inner and outer gardens of a teahouse)
- —中臈court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period); female servant for a samurai family; lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)
- —中度moderate
- —中店mid-sized store; middle-class brothel (in a red-light district)
- —中層middle part; medium depth (water); medium layer; middle lamella; medium-size; mid-level; medium-rise (building)